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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on December 27, 2008 at 7:43

Landowner compensation can vary widely. Alot depends on the nature of the well: Is it a commercial well (where other companies will pay the operator to dispose of their SW, usually brought in by truck)) or is it intended to dispose of Sw fro a lease or unit well (sent from the producing well by a flowline)?

For example: A landowner may the latter to be established for a small annual rental, espessially when a marginal well making a lot of water is involved to keep the well from being deemed as not economical and being plugged. these SWD's are usually quiet, with little traffic involved. The flowlines will be buried out of sight.

Whereas in a commercial well where you have significnat truck traffic involved. The landowner may even be compensated on a per barrel basis in addition to the locations rental.

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Permalink Reply by Bain on December 27, 2008 at 8:55

Thanks. I am talking about a commercial well that would accept SW from other sources. How far can the trucks travel, and still be cost-effective, and how much would a landowner be able to get paid on a per-barrel basis?

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Permalink Reply by Snake Stewart on December 27, 2008 at 13:00

Permalink Reply by iamwhatham on December 25, 2008 at 1:11am
Disposal well technology has advanced to the point that injection wells represent the environmentally safest method of disposing of produced salt water.

Not trying to question your integrity but I find it very hard to believe that SDW's are the safest, most environmentally ways of disposal. If you could lend me a link to that info I would certainly love to feel better about SDW's.

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Permalink Reply by BirdDawg, plain ole' idiot on December 27, 2008 at 13:38

Snake,
Don't want to be argumentative, but what the hell else are we gonna do with salt water?
And no, I haven't been hanging around with ole Robert on Black Lake tonight. LOL
Guess we could drink it (ugh).
Or maybe we could fill up a hugh salt water aquarium. But all the fish would die.
Well, I'm all for putting it back in shallow formations (below the fresh water aquafier) as they do.

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Permalink Reply by Snake Stewart on December 27, 2008 at 17:52

You got me. I just didnt know that shootin it back in the ground was such a safe thing to do. Seems to be working with other forms of toxic waste tho.(LOL)

For the record, I have heard of more expensive (I am quite sure) desalinization attempts being made to help curb some of these byproduct problems. Dont know how effective they are but will eventually be the way to go,in some form or fashion, depending on how long it takes some yo-yo to take a short cut and screw up an aquifer or two.

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Permalink Reply by Rod B. on February 13, 2009 at 12:10

Have anyone tried drinking the water in Panola County, Tx. lately. They have been injecting SW for years there. No body around the Cartage area can drink their well water. So what do you think happened over there? I personally don't want a SW disposal well anywhere near me.

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Permalink Reply by Snake Stewart on December 27, 2008 at 17:56

Thanks Iamwhatham,
That will certainly point me in the right direction.

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Permalink Reply by sesport on December 27, 2008 at 18:05

Also, there's already a ton of stuff here at GHS in the environmental group.

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Permalink Reply by Snake Stewart on December 27, 2008 at 18:09

Will have to check that out as well. I am sorry to have to admit that I havent spent any time there. Shame on me S.S.P

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Permalink Reply by sesport on December 27, 2008 at 18:20

You have been busy running into town. ha, ha I'm like you, I don't know what we should do with the sw, but I think we should proceed cautiously. We're already hearing about DeSoto well problems, whether or not the companies want to admit having a hand in drawing down the aquifer. But of course there are claims out there that Chernobyl had no ill health effects, too. I've said it before, I'll say it again, we had that one instance last year with city water, and even the great Wally World couldn't keep up with the demand for bottled water. I do like my water, especially in the summer.

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on December 27, 2008 at 19:40

Salt water disposal wells are just taking the salt water and putting it back into the ground where it came from.

Its tried and true.

Also, this has nothing to do with drawing down aquifers.

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Permalink Reply by sesport on December 28, 2008 at 9:39

A sw disposal well injects the water right back into the ground in the same location and at the same depth that it came from?

My point about the drawing down of the aquifer was that, if drinking water becomes contaminated, we would have difficulty keeping people in bottled water. The Shreveport problem last spring wasn't created by a drawing down, but the system was shut down and we had no (significantly) running water, much less drinking water. Again, we should proceed with caution and DUE DILIGENCE.

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